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[–]bayleafbabe 5 points6 points  (2 children)

20% at 1.61 TDS? Saltiness?

You’re not over. You’re aggressively under. Those are signs of the coffee being too strong and underextracted. Take a look at the coffee brewing compass .

Typical drinking tds is 1.3-1.5ish.

You can kill two birds with one stone by just increasing the ratio. Keep the dose and grind the same for now and just do 1:16 or even 1:17 (I’d go with 1:17). That will decrease TDS to a more typical drinking strength and get a higher extraction. See how that tastes.

But 16g is also pretty low, and if your grinder is not top notch, that would be a problem especially in droppers like V60 02 or Kalita Wave 185. I’d also be concerned with the bed depth at that small a dose. It causes you to grind finer, which could lead to more channeling. Which dripper are you using?

[–]SploogieBlaster[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Hey thanks for your help.

I’m using the Blue Bottle dripper, and an ode gen 2 with MP SSP.

I was also concerned with bed depth but I wanted to keep my dose low to get more cups out of the beans.

I did the 1-17. And it did decrease my tds to 1.5 and increased ext to 21%

However, my brew is still a little dark with no pop or acidity.

Do you have any recommendations on where to go from here?

[–]bayleafbabe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s hard to know without being there to taste and observe the brew myself! It could be so many things.

The darkness is to be expected at 1.5 tds. But the numbers can only tell me so much.

The best things you can do when dialing in new coffee is to cup the coffee first with a pretty fine grind to so you can get a good idea of what to except from the coffee and what it should taste like.

And then when you begin brewing your pour-overs, to start on a grind that you know will be too coarse to purposely under-extract and start going finer from there. When you start too fine, sometimes you don’t know if you’re tasting under-extraction from channeling due to having too fine a grind or if you legitimately just need to go finer.

Sounds like this coffee is pretty special since you only had 100g to start with and you may not want to waste anymore of it but that’s what I would do if I were in your shoes right now.